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household savings, which are primarily financed through increased paternal labor supply. This is the first paper that highlights …
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with higher total household wealth, lower financial stress and higher expected retirement income. We find little evidence …
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By allowing people to obtain divorce without the consent of their spouse, Unilateral Divorce Laws (UDLs) increase the risk of divorce. Using the staggered introduction of UDLs across European countries, we show that households exposed to UDLs for longer time accumulate more savings. This effect...
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pension wealth created by Poland's 1999 pension reform. Using the 1997–2003 Polish Household Budget Surveys, we begin by … estimating "difference-in-differences" regressions, where we compare household saving and expenditure across time and between … household saving. We also find heterogeneity in responses. For the middle-aged cohorts, we find a large public pension crowd …
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study household savings and expenditure adjustment from an unexpected, large-scale and rapidly evolving political shock that …
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Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order … household wealth is crowded out by pensions? (2) Can linear regression analysis accurately estimate the magnitude of crowdout … results indicate that private pensions in the US crowd out less than $0.15 of household saving per dollar of pension wealth …
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-2008. Using data from the Flow of Funds Accounts (FFA) and Urban Household Surveys (UHS) supplemented by the findings from … household sectors. Although the causes of China's high saving are complex, we suggest that the evolving economic, demographic …
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This paper investigates the relationship between wealth, ageing and saving behaviour of private households by using pooled cross sections of German consumption survey data. Different components of wealth are distinguished, as their impact on the savings rate is not homogeneous. On average, the...
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Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic … structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under … investigated in the context of household saving decisions in China …
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We analyze the impact of an increase in the risk of divorce on the saving behaviour of married couples. From a theoretical perspective, the expected sign of the effect is ambiguous. We take advantage of the legalization of divorce in Ireland in 1996 as an exogenous increase in the likelihood of...
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